Dr. Gooseff earned his Bachelor's in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1996, his MS in Civil Engineering at University of Colorado in 1998, and his PhD in Civil Engineering at University of Colorado in 2001.

His PhD research focused on stream-groundwater exchanges in glacial meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Dr. Gooseff conducts on-going research in Arctic Alaska, mostly from the Toolik Field Station and continues research in Antarctica. In Colorado, Dr. Gooseff is conducting research at the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory in the Front Range of Colorado.